Resort Fees

This instance is not a cut and dried as the OP wanted to make it. Outdoor Resorts Palm Springs is a very top of the line resort. Golf Course, concrete pads, large clubhouses, on site restaurant, amenities galore. It is an ownership park where the lots are individually owned (average cost is around $100,000) and it is managed by the HOA. The HOA has a leasing arm that rents sites for the owners and collects a fee. What is happening is there are owners who are renting their sites themselves, so the HOA does not collect any fees. What is not taken into account is the HOA still has to manage that guest. They have to issue the appropriate access cards, handle any issues that arise, manage and take care of the common areas being used by those guests etc. The resort fee is being considered to offset those expenses incurred by the HOA that are not being recaptured by the HOA getting a rental commission. The individual that owns that lot can, of course, just roll the resort fee into their rental charge and no one would be the wiser. Same as rolling in the cost of the electric and charging a higher rate than if the electric was metered.